Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
Winter in City and Country.


Because there is little open air life
every indoor attraction in winter, of
social nature is promoted. This is
all fine, but the horrors ofstorms in the
city must not be overlooked; the streets
filled with snow, the struggling street
car and truck horses, the spectacle
every few rods of horses falling, and
then the chilly air, theresult frequent
ly of salt and snow mingled, and the
worse than arctic condition when the
snow is melting on one side of the
street and frozen on the other, the
sunlessness of one side of nearly every
street-if bright for q little while in the
morning, then dark and cold in the
afternoon-and iii many streets, owing
to the height of the buildings, devoid
of sun at all times; from the same
cause the wind seeming to blow from
all quarters.
l have been in the coolest parts of
Maine and New Hampshire and in
Northern Michigan in the depth of
winter, and have seen men and
women and children exposed to g.
very low temperature; but the real
type of shivering wretch, with head
drawn down into his coat collar, face
pale, teeth chattering, [ must draw
from respectable gentlemen whom |
have seen turning the corner out of O.
street running east and west into one
running north and south, when the
wind, laden with fine needles Of ice,
was rushing as through groove at
the rate of fifty miles an hour. A biz
card is undoubtedly worse, but moth
ing else is.
In the country one has the wind
from one quarter; if it is anorthwester,
Northwestern it is; and if it be q
NORTHEASTERN, a NORTHEASTERN it is, and
the citizen can adjust himself to it..
He can walk with it if it suits his con-
veDience, or if competent he can pro-
pei against it even if he has to tack.
If, however, he remains indoors he has
what to every healthy mind and
body is stimulant of the highest
order, the view of the storm.-Dr. j.
N. Buckley, in American Agricu1turist.
How to Feed Bees for Winter.
I trust that none of my readers are
unfortunate enough to have single
colony of bees on hand, lacking In
food sufficient to carry them through
the winter. But if so, it may be we'll
to know how to remedy such g. state
of affairs. Liquid sweets will scarce
| ly do at this season OF the year, even
| if the bees succeed in storing it In the
comb, from the fedora matter the
cold weather will scarcely permit-be-
cause of it's liability to cause dysen-
terry. Unsealed honey, evan not prop
erly ripened and capped over In the
comb, is considered by many apiarists
unfit for bees as winter stores, AMI
hence is carefully removed when the
swarms are prepared for winter along
in the fall months.
Henry Alley, of Wenham, Mass,
an apiarist of twenty-five years ex-
perience, says, "Late feeding will some
times answer if the weather is mild,
but generally those fed later than Sep
TENDER 20 lat the North) will not
winter we'll; hence, all the necessary
supplies should be given before that
date, and sealed over before cold
weather sets in, and drives the bees
from the outer to the cluster on the
center combs. If not, the syrup or
honey will not be sealed before spring,
and will sour and ferment, running out
of the cells and besmearing the combs,
and when spring opens they are mouldy
and damp. II there is one thing worse
than another it is to have their
combs in the above condition, and if
obliged to eat the sour stuff before
spring, it is almost certain death to
them unless the weather Is SO favor
able that they can fly daily.
Feed suitable for bees, therefore,
| must be in a. solid form unless sealed
honey in combs is at hand to give
them. There are several ways of pre-
pairing such solid food or candy, but
the preference is most generally given
to q formula of I. r. Good, of Tennes-
see, and popularity known among
beekeepers as 'sGood Candy" 1t is
extensively used in supplying food for